a type of ant associated with excrement (see Karttunen); could also conceivably be a type of ant that produces an excrescence
Orthographic Variants:
cuitlāzcatl
IPAspelling:
kwitɬɑːskɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen:
CUITLĀZCA-TL a type of ant associated with excrement / hormiga de mierda (Z) [(2)Zp.68,149]. In the Nahuatl-to- Spanish side thih is identified as ‘hormiga pepehua,’ but it is glossed as ‘hormiga de mierda’ in the other side of the dictionary. See CUITL(A)-TL, ĀZCA-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 74.